CMU Had a Great Presence at CHI 2009
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Authors from Carnegie Mellon and the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, in particular, had a great presence at CHI 2009, the premier conference in Human-Computer Interaction. They presented 26 full papers, with six of these nominated for Best Paper Awards.
The Best Paper nominees included a study of street sweepers as platforms for studying air quality by HCII Professor Eric Paulos, a study of the design of educational games for rural schoolchildren in India by HCII Professor Matthew Kam, 2 papers on human computation games by CSD Professor Luis von Ahn (1 each with students Edith Law and Severin Hacker, and 2 papers on supporting usability through explanations in context-aware applications by HCII Professor Anind Dey (1 with student Brian Lim).
CMU authors were also well represented in other types of content. This includes 4 Notes, 3 Courses, 1 Interactivity Showcase, 6 Work-In-Progress Posters, 2 Special Interest Groups, 3 Panels, 1 Invited Discussion, 5 Workshops, 2 Communities, 1 Exhibit, 1 Case Study, 1 Video Showcase, and 9 Workshop papers.
CMU was also represented well in the organization of the CHI 2009 program, with Professor Scott Hudson being the Papers Co-Chair, Professor Bonnie John being the Doctoral Consortium Co-Chair and Engineering Community Co-Chair, Professor Mark Baskinger being the Design Community Co-Chair, Professor Jodi Forlizzi being the Papers Chair of the Design SubCommittee, and Professors Laura Dabbish, Anind Dey, Sara Kiesler and John Zimmerman serving as Associate Chairs on the Papers Program Committee.
Details for all of our CHI 2009 participation follow:
Full Papers: 26, including 6 Best Paper nominations
- A Vehicle for Research: Using Street Sweepers to Explore the Landscape of Environmental Community Action
Paul M. Aoki, R.J. Honicky, Alan Mainwaring, Chris Myers, Eric Paulos, Sushmita Subramanian, Allison Woodruff
Best Paper nominee - Real Life Challenges in Access-control Management
Lujo Bauer, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Robert W. Reeder, Michael K. Reiter, Kami Vaniea - Acquiring a Professional Second Life: Problems and Prospects for the Use of Virtual Worlds in Business
Katherine Bessiere, Jason B. Ellis, Wendy A. Kellogg - Strategy-Based Instruction: Lessons Learned in Teaching the Effective and Efficient Use of Computers
Suresh Bhavnani, Frederick A. Peck, Frederick Reif - Feed Me: Motivating Newcomer Contribution in Social Network Sites
Moira Burke, Cameron Marlow, Thomas Lento - Support for Context-Aware Intelligibility and Control
Anind K. Dey, Alan Newberger
Best Paper nominee - Timing Is Everything? The Effects of Timing and Placement of Online Privacy Indicators
Serge Egelman, Janice Y. Tsai, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Alessandro Acquisti - UbiGreen: Investigating a Mobile Tool for Tracking and Supporting Green Transportation Habits
Jon Froehlich, Tawanna Dillahunt, Predrag Klasnja, Jennifer Mankoff, Sunny Consolvo, Beverly Harrison, James A. Landay - Matchin: Eliciting User Preferences with an Online Game
Severin Hacker, Luis von Ahn
Best Paper nominee - Texture Displays: A Passive Approach to Tactile Presentation
Chris Harrison, Scott E. Hudson - mimir: A Market-Based Real-Time Question and Answer Service
Gary Hsieh, Scott Counts - Self-Interruption on the Computer: A Typology of Discretionary Task Interleaving
Jing Jin, Laura A. Dabbish - Designing Digital Games for Rural Children: A Study of Traditional Village Games in India
Matthew Kam, Akhil Mathur, Anuj Kumar, John Canny
Best Paper nominee - User Experience Over Time: An Initial Framework
Evangelos Karapanos, John Zimmerman, Jodi Forlizzi, Jean-Bernard Martens - Simulated Augmented Reality Windshield Display as a Cognitive Mapping Aid for Elder Driver Navigation
SeungJun Kim, Anind K. Dey - Coordination in Collective Intelligence: The Role of Team Structure and Task Interdependence
Aniket Kittur, Bryant Lee, Robert E. Kraut - Finding Causes of Program Output with the Java Whyline
Andrew J. Ko, Brad A. Myers - Input-Agreement: A New Mechanism for Collecting Data Using Human Computation Games
Edith Law, Luis Von Ahn
Best Paper nominee - Why and Why Not Explanations Improve the Intelligibility of Context-Aware Intelligent Systems
Brian Y. Lim, Anind K. Dey, Daniel Avrahami
Best Paper nominee - Toward a Unified Theory of the Multitasking Continuum: From Concurrent Performance to Task Switching, Interruption, and Resumption
Dario D. Salvucci, Niels, A. Taatgen, Jelmer P. Borst - It’s Not What You Know, But Who You Know: A Social Approach to Last-Resort Authentication
Stuart Schechter, Serge Egelman, Robert W. Reeder - Learning How: The Search for Craft Knowledge on the Internet
Cristen Torrey, Elizabeth F. Churchill, David W. McDonald - Who’s Viewed You? The Impact of Feedback in a Mobile Location-Sharing Application
Janice Y. Tsai, Patrick Gage Kelley, Paul Drielsma, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Jason I. Hong, Norman Sadeh - Contextual Web History: Using Visual and Contextual Cues to Improve Web Browser History
Sungjoon Steve Won, Jing Jin, Jason I. Hong - Designing for the Self: Making Products that Help People Become the Person they Desire to Be
John Zimmerman - User-created Forms as an Effective Method of Human-agent Communication
John Zimmerman, Kathryn Rivard, Ian Hargraves, Anthony Tomasic, Ken Mohnkern
Notes: 4
- Where to Locate Wearable Displays? Reaction Time Performance of Visual Alerts from Tip to Toe
Chris Harrison, Brian Y Lim, Aubrey Shick, Scott E. Hudson - Texture Displays: A Passive Approach to Tactile Presentation
Chris Harrison, Scott E. Hudson - What’s in Wikipedia? Mapping Topics and Conflict Using Socially Annotated Category Structure
Aniket Kittur, Ed H. Chi, Bongwon Suh - Reflections of Everyday Activities in Spending Data
Julia Schwarz, Jennifer Mankoff, H. Scott Matthews
Work in Progress Posters: 6
- Supporting Intercultural Collaboration with Dynamic Feedback Systems: Preliminary Evidence from a Creative Design Task
E. Ilana Diamant, Andy Echenique, Brian Y Lim, Gilly Leshed, Susan R. Fussell - Intentions: A Game for Classifying Search Query Intent
Edith Law, Anton Mityagin, Max Chickering - How Do People Talk to a Robot? An Analysis of Human-Robot Dialogues in the Real World
Min Kyung Lee, Maxim Makatchev - Tailoring Websites to Increase Contributions to Online Communities
Min Kyung Lee, Tawanna Dillahunt, Bryan Pendleton, Robert E. Kraut, Sara Kiesler - Jadeite: Improving API Documentation Using Usage Information
Jeffrey Stylos, Zizhuang Yang, Brad A. Myers - Designing for Email Response Management
Sungjoon Steve Won, Laura A. Dabbish
Workshops Organized: 5
- DIY for CHI: Methods, Communities, and Values of Reuse and Customization
Leah Buechley, Eric Paulos, Daniela K. Rosner, Amanda Williams - Defining the Role of HCI in the Challenges of Sustainability
Elaine M. Huang, Eli Blevis, Jennifer Mankoff, Lisa P. Nathan, Bill Tomlinson - Human-centered Computing in International Development
Nithya Sambasivan, Melissa Ho, Matthew Kam, Neesha Kodagoda, Susan M. Dray, John C. Thomas, Ann Light, Kentaro Toyama - Social Mediating Technologies: Developing the Research Agenda
Alistair Sutcliffe, Victor Gonzalez, Robert E. Kraut - Building a Unified Framework for the Practice of eXperience Design
John Zimmerman, Jodi Forlizzi, Ilpo Koskinen
Panels: 3
- Scientometric Analysis of the CHI Proceedings
danah boyd, Gilbert Cockton, Robert Kraut - The Beauty Dilemma
Bill Buxton, Mary Czerwinski, Jodi Forlizzi - Eek! A Mouse! Organic User Interfaces: Tangible, Transitive Materials and Programmable Reality
Roel Vertegaal, Ivan Poupyrev, Nimish Bioloria, Seth Goldstein, Hiroshi Ishii, Sachicko Kodama, Pattie Maes, Jun Rekimoto
Student Design Competition Teams: 2
- Designing a Privacy Label: Assisting Consumer Understanding of Online Privacy Practices
Patrick Gage Kelley - KTE2: An Engine for Kinetic Typography
Zhiquan Yeo, Scott E. Hudson
Special Interest Groups: 2
- End User Software Engineering
Brad A. Myers, Margaret M. Burnett, Susan Wiedenbeck, Andrew J. Ko, Mary Beth Rosson - API Usability
John M. Daughtry, Umer Farooq, Jeffrey Stylos, Brad A. Myers
Courses: 3
- Drawing Ideas: Hand-generated Sketching for Interaction Design
Mark Baskinger, William Bardel - Avoiding “We Can’t Change THAT!”: An Introduction to Usability and Software Architecture
Bonnie John, Len Bass, Elspeth Golden - Developing visual models that can lead to design implications
Shelley Evenson, Hugh Dubberly, Rick Robinson
Interactivity Showcase: 1
- Tangible Sketching in 3D with Posey
Michael Philetus Weller, Mark D. Gross, Ellen Yi-Luen Do
Communities: 2
- Engineering Community: User Experience in Open Source
Mike Beltzner, Alex Faaborg, Alonso Vera, Jeff Noyes, Becca Scollan, Bonnie John - Design Community: More Than Kimchi and Cash: Designing for Cultural Identity
Kipum Lee, Shelley Evenson, Richard Buchanan
Case Study: 1
- Leveraging Open-Source Software in the Design and Development Process
Collin Green, Irene Tollinger, Christian Ratterman, Guy Pryzak, Alex Eiser, Lanie Castro, Alonso Vera
Video Showcase: 1
- SHIFTR: A User-Directed, Link-Based System for Ad Hoc Sensemaking of Large Heterogeneous Data Collections
Duen Horng Chau, Aniket Kittur, Christos Faloutsos, Jason I. Hong
Invited Discussion: 1
- Real Life and Real Work: Real Experiences Negotiating the Competing Needs of Illness, Disability, Children, and Work
Jennifer Mankoff, Jaime Teevan, Benjamin B. Bederson
Exhibit: 1
- CMU Design Vignettes and Education Booth
Workshop Papers: 9
- Workshop: Human-Centered Computing in International Development
Speech Interfaces in the Context of the Healthline Project
Jose Gonzalez-Brenes, Jahanzeb Sherwani, Carolyn Rose, Ronald Rosenfeld - Workshop: DIY for CHI: Methods, Communities, and Values of Reuse and Customization
How to DIY a Simple Low-Cost VOCs Sensor
Sunyoung Kim, Eric Paulos - Workshop: Sensemaking Workshop 2009
Supporting Ad Hoc Sensemaking: Integrating Cognitive, HCI, and Data Mining Approaches
Aniket Kittur, Duen Horng Chau, Jason Hong, Christos Faloutsos - Workshop: DIY for CHI: Methods, Communities, and Values of Reuse and Customization
Low-cost Water Sensor to Motivate Sustainable Water Use
Stacey Kuznetsov, Eric Paulos - Workshop: Computational Creativity Support 2009
Visions for Euclase: Ideas for Supporting Creativity through Better Prototyping of Behaviors
Stephen Oney, Brad Myers, John Zimmerman - Workshop: End-User Programming for the Web
Inferring Reusability of End-User Programmer’s Code from Low-Ceremony Evidence
Chris Scaffidi, Mary Shaw - Workshop: Programming Reality
Hyperform Specification: Designing with Self-reconfiguring Material
Michael Weller, Seth Goldstein, Mark D. Gross - Workshop: Defining the Role of HCI in the Challenges of Sustainability
Prepare for Descent: Interaction Design in our New Future
Jeffrey Wong - Workshop: End-User Programming for the Web
The Mashup as a Lens on End-User Programming for the Web
Jeffrey Wong, Jason Hong
Organizers: 9
- Mark Baskinger, Co-Chair, Design Community
- Laura Dabbish, Associate Papers Chair, Behavioral Study and Theory Subcommittee
- Anind K. Dey, Associate Papers Chair, Technology, Systems, Tools and Infrastructure Subcommittee
- Jodi Forlizzi, Chair, Design Subcommittee
- Scott Hudson, Co-Chair, Papers Track
- Bonnie John, Co-Chair, Doctoral Consortium
- Bonnie John, Co-Chair, Engineering Community
- Sara Kiesler, Associate Papers Chair, Interaction Beyond the Individual Subcommittee
- John Zimmerman, Associate Papers Chair, Design Subcommittee
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